What in My Bag?—Learning Ally—High Quality Audiobooks
This is a great place to start your content tool kit. Learning Ally is a low-cost, low-tech tool that should be the first tool that you get as you start to build your reading toolbox. It is a huge library of recorded books that you can get for a subscription price ($135/yr) .
How does it work?
● Learning Ally has an annual subscription for $135 that allows you to download an unlimited number of recorded books and articles.
● The recordings are delivered to your device of choice.
● Software is provided to allow you to listen to downloaded content.
What makes it Great?
● There is a huge library and it is growing all the time.
○ The library has currently popular books (like you see at the front of Barnes and Noble)
○ Classics that you’ll need for school.
○ Textbooks. Yes. Textbooks. You will find almost every textbook through high school and college on tape.
○ And if they don’t have it on tape they will tape it for you.
● The quality of the recordings is excellent. No computer voices here. Real people reading the books. Some are famous actors and actresses who volunteer to read for Learning Ally.
● It’s a great deal. The subscription price is low when you consider that it covers an unlimited number of recorded books.
Where does it fall short?
● Used to be free but now carries an annual subscription of $135
How do I get started?
● Visit the website at www.learningally.org
● Sign up for a subscription.
● Download the software to your preferred device or devices.
● Get your first book and enjoy.
Some tips from Paul:
● “I like to read along with taped books. I feel like I get more out of it and that it helps with my reading when I’m not using recorded books. Try it and see what you think”
● “Recorded books are a great companion on long trips”
Dad’s two cents:
● “We never would have gotten through high school and college without RFD&B.”
● “Learning Ally will tape books by request. More on this later”
Learning Ally and the Tool Page for more Support
